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Post by thejasonsorrell on Dec 29, 2016 22:16:54 GMT -6
Created this design and then did the tattoo for a client a few years ago. I think it might be appreciated here.
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Post by thejasonsorrell on Dec 29, 2016 22:18:10 GMT -6
I'm happy with the way the tattoo turned out.
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Post by shawnhartnell on Jan 8, 2017 14:10:42 GMT -6
I dig it. Though, I like the design much more than the final tattoo.
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Post by thejasonsorrell on Jan 11, 2017 1:48:35 GMT -6
To be honest, I feel the same way. The design is much stronger on paper, especially with the cross-hatching for shading versus the standard tattoo machine shading. The addition of more tentacles to the cap of the tattoo also severely drowns the central element (the eye), but at the end of the day I am paid to give the client what they want.
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Post by shawnhartnell on Jan 11, 2017 10:11:22 GMT -6
I think I like the original because it looks exactly like the kind of "black ink" page art in the ADnD 2nd edition handbooks and Monster Manual. It's so close to the style that if someone showed it to me and told me it was in one of those books, I'd probably "remember" having had seen it before.
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Post by shawnhartnell on Jan 11, 2017 10:13:35 GMT -6
Yours is actually a bit better:
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Post by thejasonsorrell on Jan 12, 2017 0:58:15 GMT -6
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Post by shawnhartnell on Jan 12, 2017 1:53:31 GMT -6
If you did that just to screw with my nostalgia perception then... well played, sir. Well played.
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Post by Beast Xeno on Jan 13, 2017 19:45:51 GMT -6
Personally I like both the graphic rendition and the tattoo depiction equally. I find both have subtle defects which render a distinct character. The more recent color interpretation wins over the prior two. B&G has and always will leave me with the feeling of incompleteness, no matter what medium it is expressed in. I would have liked to see the tattoo version leave the confinement of the shoulder space, taking up some of the chest/rear shoulder-blade space. A stray tentacle or 5 might have give way to a more organic appearance of the body. Still a bad-ass tattoo, but that is what I see. The penial shape of the graphical interpretation is what I have come to expect from the devious mind of Mr. Sorrell and of course there is that cross-hatching... love it. Keep up the good fight my friend!
**ADDENDUM** After looking at the picture of the tattoo again. I noticed you were trying to use the additional spaces to make it more organic. So it is really just that, I feel you should gone a little further with it. I really dig it all the same!
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Post by thejasonsorrell on Jan 14, 2017 1:04:21 GMT -6
Thanks! I don't think I am ever completely satisfied with a tattoo. There is always something that could have been done differently. I wonder what we would have ended up with if the client would have elected for a larger eye on the shoulder, and the tentacles sprawling over more space; chest, back, arm, and neck.
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